"Something special can happen late at night in a jazz club. As the crowd thins, the musicians intuitively sense that those few who have stayed, have stayed for a reason. A reciprocity of need and desire inspires the musicians to dig as deeply into their talent and souls as they are able. This mysterious and transformative confluence of events rarely happens in concert. It is the province of the nightclub."

-- Patricia Barber

#Night Quotes #Inspire Quotes #Soul Quotes

“When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.”
“I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.”
“The only way to eliminate the deficit in the long run is through growth.”
“A split second is nothing compared to twenty-four hours. On God's clock you're in the middle of your millisecond. Compared to eternity, what is seventy, eighty, ninety years?”
“Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything.”

Source : Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1952). “Selected prose”
“Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.”
“I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.”
“I'm a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home.”

Source : "Hope Davis: Will Six Degrees' Laura Bust Her Pal's Fiancé?". Interview with Sabrina Rojas Weiss, www.tvguide.com. October 12, 2006.

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